Get in your ZONE!

Friday, February 04, 2011

By: Emerge Leadership Group

Creating contribution through engagement

Emerge Leadership Group is proud to announce the release of its latest offering, "Get in your ZONE: Creating contribution through engagement."

Happy employees make happy customers.  Happy customers buy more.  The more your customers buy, the happier you become!  This is the reality of today's business cycles.  Unfortunately, with the stresses and demands in today's workplace, many employees are just glad to have a job, even if they don't like it.  In fact, studies done by Emerge Leadership Group indicate that most organizations face a significant problem: There are many employees who have quit their jobs… yet they have stayed on the payroll!  The net effect of this situation is that not only are these employees under-performing, creating significant costs to the organization, but their negative pull on others tends to drag down many others as well.  What is an organization saddled with this issue to do?

As most of us know, study after study indicates that engagement seems to be at the heart of the solution to this issue.  Getting people to engage in the work of the organization produces tremendous impact.  We agree!  Studies also that managers of employees are at the heart of the engagement issue.  We also agree!  When managers take the lead and inspire their people to truly applying themselves at work, employees can become more engaged.

But what if your managers are already so overworked and under-motivated themselves, that tackling the issue of engagement seems like the lowest of their priorities?  What if you want to be engaged in your work but your manager always seems to get in the way?  Perhaps your manager isn't even involved, what then?

Even in today's strained economic situation, when employees cannot find meaning and purpose, develop themselves to a great extent, and act for themselves to achieve great purposes, they tend to leave the organizations they work for.  People who want to be engaged in work this way are the very soul of an organization.  To lose these people would be to cut the heart out of the organization, leaving it on life-support.

The costs of finding, hiring and retaining top talent in today's economy makes dealing with engagement a top priority.  If we cannot find ways to keep our people engaged, not only do we not get the best from them, but we stand a great chance of losing them and creating an environment the suppresses the engagement we so desperately need.

What organizations need is a way to help their people to find their own engagement, to take responsibility and get engaged on the many opportunities that we try to provide for them.  What organizations need is a way to get greater contribution from their people, and engagement is the key.

Emerge Leadership group has a unique solution to this issue.  Just as athletes get in the "zone" when they achieve at very high levels, so too can employees be in the zone at work.  In fact, most of us have had experiences and would like to have more of them, more often.  By using the principles taught in "Get in your ZONE," employees can learn fundamental principles of engagement and contribution, how to take responsibility and apply it in their current work, convince others that what they do can really matter, and ultimately produce the contribution we all want.

For more information on this or other Emerge programs, please contact us.

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